Ever heard the word “missional”? I’d call it a buzz word in Christianity today. All the phrases of “missional church” or “being on mission” all are within the same vein. In reality, it is a concept that resonates with me, but I don’t like how overused it gets. As I’ve written about before, I’m currently…
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On Election
No I’m not blogging about politics. One of more controversial doctrines held by many Christians is election, which is essentially that God in his sovereignty would chose some to become his children. It would be fair to say many embrace this belief, while others run far away from it. I’ve been reading The Gospel in…
How to Make Studying Enjoyable
Being a fairly musical person, I prefer to study with music playing. I hate studying at coffee shops. I tried it in college, I’d usually end up people watching or spacing out because of all the random noise and talking being too distracting. If I listen to just any random type of music I’ll end…
Culture Making
I just finished reading Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch. It was a book I really enjoyed. Andy comes at the conversation of how Christians should interact with culture from a more Biblical, artistic, and intellectual perspective than anything I’ve read before. Most books on this topic tend to use statistics and…
The Double Standard Pastors Have With Seminary
In the various conversations and discussions I’ve been in over the last few years I’ve found it common for pastors to speak about the valuable role their seminary education played in their formation and then also state their opinion about its lack of importance for other people serving at their church in a pastoral role.…
Ministry Isn’t For Pastors
One of my struggles of working at a church and also attending seminary is that many I interact with seem to think of church ministry as the height of faithfulness and ministry to God. Think of the phrase, “I’m going into the ministry,” and it’s common use in our culture today. Yet it comes across…